[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fresh install of OpenIndiana - can not upgrade nvidia from nvidia-390 to nvidia-460

[russell]

Hi

When I try the following

# beadm create nvidia-460
# beadm mount nvidia-460 /tmp/nvidia-460
# pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 uninstall xorg-video nvidia nvidia-390
Creating Plan (Solver setup): -
pkg uninstall: Unable to remove 'x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video at 0.5.11-2020.0.1.2' due to the following packages that depend on it:
   mate_install at 0.1-2020.0.1.42

If I remove mate_install I can not re-install it as it requires nvidia-390

# pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 uninstall xorg-video nvidia nvidia-390 mate_install
Packages to remove: 7
Services to change: 2

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Removing old actions                         862/862
Updating package state database                 Done
Updating package cache                           7/7
Updating image state                            Done
Creating fast lookup database                   Done
root at tesla:/home/russell# pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 install nvidia-460 mate_install
Creating Plan (Checking for conflicting actions): \
pkg install: The following packages all deliver driver actions to nvidia_modeset:

   pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia-460@0.460.67,5.11-2020.0.1.0:20210319T142607Z
   pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia-390@0.390.141,5.11-2020.0.1.0:20210311T151457Z

There is a hardcoded dependency on the nvidia-390 driver

On 03/23/21 11:12 AM, russell wrote:

> Hi
>
> My dual opteron motherboard finally died, so I had to build a new
> workstation based on a Ryzen 5 5600X.
> Once the workstation was built, I started the Openindiana install,
> downloading the 2020 October text based iso.
> Very happy with the installation, no problems there as I wanted to
> create a mirrorred boot pair of SSDs.
> After completing the Openindiana install on the mirrored pair, I
> performed a pkg refresh, then a pkg update creating a new BE.
> After completing the update and I performed pkg install mate_install
> it worked fine, though I have noticed a couple of things.
>
> 1) when performing a pkg install/update the create plan can take a
> very, very long time compared to the Dual Opteron 2435 workstation.
> ???? Things that took seconds or worse a few minutes can now take
> hours...(literally being left over night)
>
> 2) When I attempted to replace the Nvidia-390 driver with the
> Nvidia-460 driver, by removing the Nvidia-390 driver it has a
> dependency on nvidia pkg, attempting to remove nvidia pkg results in a
> warning that the mate install depends on pkg nvidia.
>
> How can upgrade to the Nvidia-460 driver?
>
> Regards
>
> Russell
>
>
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On 03/19/21 09:07 PM, John D Groenveld wrote:

> Try
> # beadm create nvidia-460
> # beadm mount nvidia-460 /tmp/nvidia-460
> # pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 uninstall xorg-video nvidia nvidia-390
> # pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 install nvidia-460
> # beadm activate nvidia-460
> # init 6
>
> John
> groenveld at acm.org
>
> _

Hello!

Thanks to John to point out this possibility of changing the nvidia
driver version and avoid intermediate reboots.